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Harry Potter and his Magic Wand
Cody Acevedo Equus, a play by Peter Shaffer was performed in London in 1973 and on Broadway in 1975 and was under controversy for its...
“Undead Will”: How Thoreau’s “I am a parcel of vain strivings tied” Threads Weird Loops
Brooke D. Campbell “Isn’t the paranoia that I might simply be a puppet of some demonic external force just the suspicion that I might be...
“If I were a Man, then I’d be the Man:” A Double Look at Churchill’s Top Girls
Jacqueline Duran Caryl Churchill’s 1982 play Top Girls brings about the issues that women face when it comes to the business world. Our...


“Ladders of Love” from “The Treehouse of Language”
Patrick England Looking at the title of this year’s Acacia conference, about the only thing I can reject in my life is my neighbor with...
The End Begins the Fight for Control: A Look at Death in As I Lay Dying and Santa Evita
Timothy Harvey In this essay I will be discussing the autonomy of the “corpse” and those who seek to control it. I will be utilizing the...
"Beginnings, Endings, and Different: The Effects of Colonization as Depicted Through Fiction."
Aimee Jurado In Yen Le Espiritu’s book chapter, she opens with this quote by Nguyên-Vo Thu Huong: “It should not surprise anyone that...
The Androgynous Expression of Love and Loss in Written on the Body
Erin King Abstract “Why is the measure of love loss?”. Jeanette Winteron’s narrator from Written on the Body asks this question while...
The Significance of Fluid Metaphor in Open Water
Olivia Loveless Oftentimes, the prose of a novel itself can add a significance just as emphatic as the message itself; indeed, it could...
Lifelines and Deadlines in Open Water
Philip Mack If love was a color, would it be black? If beauty was a color, would it be black? Is the negative of a photograph a capturing...
Tracing the Nonlinearity of Healing in Open Water
Anissah Madrid In his novel Open Water, Caleb Nelson traverses the nuances of time and healing in an inherently cyclical fashion. In...
Reality in Shambles: An Examination of Psychological Deterioration in Death of a Salesman
Rachel Mendiola The 20th century marked the beginning of an industrialized nation and the end of rurality forever. New ways of life...
Policing Anger: The Lost Message of Black Identity in the 1965 Production of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman
Angelica Medlin In 1964, the play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones, premiered at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York....
“‘New Womanhood’ and Masculinity in The Sun Also Rises,”
Nicole M. Nguyen Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises not only presents a disillusioned World War I veteran’s views on the general...
Upsetting Deviancy in Libra and Santa Evita
Juan Padilla Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988) and Tomas Eloy Martinez’s Santa Evita (1996) have received considerable scholarly attention for...
“To Tell My Story:” Horatio’s Definition of Authorship
Shelby Perlis While Hamlet features one of the most widely studied literary figures in history, it is not its titular character that...
The Quantum Mindset and the Physics of Change: A Multidisciplinary Theory
Melanie Swan Change is an undertheorized topic as there is a lack of standardized tools for thinking about change in any field. Hence,...
Living Beyond the Grave in Santa Evita and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
Khadra Zerouali Throughout history, there has been some sort of ritualistic tradition surrounding the dead. However, when it comes to...
Reading, Researching, and Collaboration in the Digital Age
Katie Zeeb The purpose of this paper is to discuss best practices to create or promote effective websites for student research. It will...
Afrofuturism and the Comic: Revisiting the Past to Re-imagine the Future in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Ashley Wayne Introduction The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred is a re-visualization of the traumatic and...
Mrs. Warren’s Profession: The Angel in the House and the New Woman
Ivanna Russell Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw can be viewed as a direct critique of Victorian societal norms and gender...
The Repressed Self: A Psychological Analysis of Frankenstein
Adolfo Plazola Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein introduces a complex and evil archetype via the character of Victor Frankenstein and...
Don Juan’s Shame (or Lack Thereof)
Juan Padilla In the letter “To Arthur Bingham Walkley,” George Bernard Shaw mentions his Don Juan character’s preference for reading the...
A Different Happily Ever After: The Subversion of Fairy Tales in Shaw’s Pygmalion
Angelica Medlin “Ogres have layers,” titular character Shrek tries explaining to his Donkey companion in the 2001 DreamWorks film Shrek....
The Flâneuse and Phantasmagoria in the Cosmopolis
Jackson Martinez The flâneur is a commonly associated with class and masculine privilege because he is capable of being invisible to the...
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